A New Type of Rock Is Forming — and It’s Made of Our Trash
At a beach in England, soda tabs, zippers, and plastic waste are turning into rock before our eyes.
Tag: anthropocene
Birds are building nests out of decades-old plastic trash and it’s a record of the Anthropocene
Eurasian coots are unknowingly creating plastic archives of the Anthropocene.
The Lunar Anthropocene — a New Geological Era on the Moon?
It's time to start looking at space exploration with a different lens.
This Canadian Lake marks the start of the Anthropocene
We are now a step closer to understanding when and how it started.
Better make room: Man-made stuff now outweighs all other living things on Earth
It's a symbolic study that suggests we're building too many things and disregarding nature.
Tomorrow’s fossils will be human skeletons “lined up in rows,” domestic animals, and not much else
"The future mammal record will be mostly cows, pigs, sheep, goats, dogs, cats, etc., and people themselves," the authors note.
Like fossils: half a century of plastics are buried in layers of sediment
It's a depressing hallmark of human activity.
The ‘Age of Man’ is upon us — Anthropocene period close to becoming official
We are living in changing times.
There are 30 trillion tons of human-made stuff all over the planet
And it's called the technosphere.
Scientists believe humans have started a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene
It's a new time -- geologically speaking, at least.
Fishing vessels level sea bottom – signs of a new dawning geological era
A while ago, several geologists started wondering if the impact humanity is having on Earth isn't so big, that despite ...
